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Sarunnio Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

knock it down

I watched the movie; while someone in that movie had made it out of the firing building,
the fireman said it to his colleague "let's knock it down and roll them up".

What does the sentence "let's knock it down" mean?
  

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Sarunnio, Indeed there are many meanings associated with the word knock. In the above context it would mean (from Cambridge): knock sth down (DESTROY) phrasal verb to destroy a building or part of a building: The Council plans to knock the library down and replace it with a hotel complex.

  • Sarunnio, Indeed there are many meanings associated with the word knock.
  • In the above context it would mean (from Cambridge): knock sth down (DESTROY) phrasal verb to destroy a building or part of a building: The Council plans to knock the library down and replace it with a hotel complex.
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Sarunnio,
Indeed there are many meanings associated with the word knock. In the above context it would mean (from Cambridge):

knock sth down (DESTROY) phrasal verb
to destroy a building or part of a building:
The Council plans to knock the library down and replace it with a hotel complex.

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